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Offerings
OUA-OUA1-EXT-2020-ONGOING
OUA-OUA2-EXT-2018-2019
OUA-OUA4-EXT-2018-2019
Enrolment rules
Same as the Base Code Unit [POL335]:
Nil.
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Learning outcomes
1.
What is radicalisation?
2.
How and where are individuals and groups radicalised?
3.
How do radicalised individuals/groups plot and carry out terrorist attacks?
4.
What is intelligence and what forms does it take?
5.
From where and how does police gather intelligence regarding radicalisation?
6.
How is this ‘raw’ intelligence analysed and operationalized by the police?
7.
What pre-emptive techniques does the police use to prevent terrorist attacks?
8.
How does the police de-radicalise individual and groups who have been radicalised?
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Additional information
Unit content:This unit consists of the following twelve topics:
1. Terrorism as an existential threat to Western democracies
2. The problem of radicalisation
3. The process of radicalisation
4. From radicalisation to planning and executing a terrorist attack
5. The role of intelligence in counterterrorism
6. Forms and sources of intelligence in counterterrorism
7. The analysis and operationalization of intelligence in counterterrorism
8. Pre-emptive counterterrorism policing techniques
9. The ethics of intelligence and pre-emptive counterterrorism policing
10. De-radicalisation and its challenges
11. Community policing
12. Key takeaways from this unit